KATE MARKLAND | THE JOURNAL

The Answers Are in the White Space.

Reflections on imagination, trust and the power of being heard, at eight or at eighty.

Thoughts and Evidence

The Measurement Problem Nobody Is Talking About
14 2 min
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The Measurement Problem Nobody Is Talking About

The things that matter most to children do not show up in the data. That is not evidence they do not matter. It is evidence the data is incomplete.

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Kate
The 7 Transformations: What 318 Children Told Us
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The 7 Transformations: What 318 Children Told Us

318 children. One question. Seven consistent themes. What classic grounded theory research revealed when children were asked what it was like to be the author of their own story.

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Kate
If We Cannot Measure It, Should We Still Do It?
9 2 min
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If We Cannot Measure It, Should We Still Do It?

The things that matter most, feeling seen, heard, valued, do not show up in the data. That is not evidence they do not matter.

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Kate
Why Storytelling Builds Children's Capacity to Overcome Adversity
11 2 min
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Why Storytelling Builds Children's Capacity to Overcome Adversity

Canadian Teacher Magazine explains not just that storytelling works for trauma-affected children but why. The research behind StoryQuest's approach to adversity.

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Kate

BOOK KATE TO SPEAK

Build a world together, and trust follows.

Your people are being asked to trust each other across distance, across generations and through constant change. Most have never been shown how.

Kate Markland has. For a time she had one hour a week with her son Gabriel, on a FaceTime call. They spent it building a world. She asked one question, wrote down everything he said and corrected nothing. That world became three books and a method tested in nine UK schools.

In her keynote, Create the World You Want, Kate shows your audience how trust is really built, and gives them a method they can use the same evening.

For leadership, education and family audiences.

Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary
Even the kids who don’t like writing didn’t want to leave.
Tom Hirst Head of English, Dixons Manningham Primary

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